After Christmas dinner we played a game of Cranium.
“Spell pilates backwards, one letter at a time,” Vicky said.
“Oh shit,” Corrina said. “I can’t spell.”
“I’m sure we’ll do fine. I’ll start,” I said. “S.”
“E,” Rich said.
Now it was Corrina’s turn. She looked at the ceiling and said pilates. She thought.
“T?”
“Yup that’s right. A.”
“L,” Rich said.
Now it was Corrina’s turn. She looked at the ceiling again and said pilates.
“…”
She mumbled pilates. Pi-la-tes.
“…”
“R?”
“…”
“Is she serious?” Rich asked.
“I think we just lost.”
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Categories:jeffrey-ism, kiwi-ism, life, memory
While walking home from work I saw a baby blue penguin floating in the harbor.
I think he was enjoying the sunshine. Pretty cute.
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Categories:catcher, jeffrey-ism, kiwi-ism, life
“You call that development?”
“Well, yeah,” I say.
“I mean, it’s just a string.”
“What’s a string?”
“No, it’s a string in chaos. That’s the logic, a string of chaos.”
“…”
“We speak different languages,” I said.
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Why do developers refuse to learn CSS? Do they find it boring? Does it pale in comparison to other languages?
I think of it as the icing on a cake.1
If you find CSS hard, chances are you haven’t implemented stuff to make it easy. Here are a few quick tips.
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Use a reset stylesheet. These styles lay the foundation of your website.2 Paste this CSS from Eric Meyer or this CSS from Yahoo at the top of your stylesheet
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Use browser-specific styles. Use this bit of JavaScript to append the user’s browser to the body tag.3 If a visual bug is found in a browser, say IE6, create a targeted class to squash that bug. For example, .ext-ie6 div.box will only apply this class to IE64
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Use Firebug. Firebug is an excellent debugger for CSS and JavaScript. It makes fixing errors “easy as”
That’s all you need to make CSS easy.
1. Icing is the best part, too.
2. Some developers are against them. Ignore those guys. I think most of them play the devil’s advocate to get page hits.
3. This JS forms the foundation for Yahoo’s JS library, Ext. It’s very good, better than Prototype.
4. You do not need to use conditional stylesheets for Internet Explorer nowadays.
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Categories:code, css
The weather in Wellington is as volatile as the New Zealand currency rate. Yesterday was freezing. But today:
Very refreshing! And the pōhutukawa are in bloom by Waitangi park.
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Yesterday night I went to a birthday party. The theme was “Hollywood.”
I went as the red carpet.
Now I have three meters of red felt. I didn’t think that one through.
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Categories:catcher, jeffrey-ism, kiwi-ism, life, memory
For Christmas the family bought me a new Kodak digital camera. As Wellington has been unseasonably windless, I snapped some photos this weekend.
Here’s Wellington:
It’s also been so sunny my arms and legs are burnt. I had to wear jeans and sandals today.
Try not to stare at the big spaces between my toes.
Thanks! The camera is great.
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Categories:catcher, jeffrey-ism